For over a year I was trying to convince my customers (that I develop programs for) to use GWT with their SAP system. The technologies available over there are WebDynpro for ABAP or Business Server Pages, which do not even know what AJAX is.
In January I managed to do that. We just finished porting one of the tool to mobile phones with the use of GWT on SAP. We just started writing another tool that was simply impossible to write in Web Dynpro ABAP. It would really break my belief in Google, if now (after over a year of convincing my customers) I would need to go back and say - GWT is no longer available. One thing that comes to my mind. I remember 2 years ago seeing all those great presentations of Google Wave on Google I/O. I managed to convince my customers to use it. We really loved it. It was great for communication. Look where we are now with that tool. Not only it just died, but there's also no decent export of the data from that system available (selecting at most 10 or 100 waves and putting them to PDFs is not enough for me - it will take me ages to select and download). Also what was contributed by Google to the open source seems to have very little stability. I've tried to use the projects on Apache, but the server simply stops working after a couple of wave edits. So what I am really affraid of, is that this lack of commits to GWT public repository is really a way of doing the same thing as was done with Wave. We will be left without decent source code. I've been for years with technologies like SAP or AS/400. Those are really annoying when you try to do something modern. But the thing that is good about them is that they never go away. I understand that Google needs to try new things (dart). But turning away from such a big project like GWT is stabbing yourself in the back. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-web-toolkit/-/7AzFOXodwtkJ. To post to this group, send email to google-web-toolkit@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
